Guidelines for Writing References

All references appearing in the text must be listed in the References, numbered consecutively with ordinal numbers of the references in round brackets, and only the number written in italic. References should preferably be recent, unless giving a review of the field, must reflect the topic of the manuscript and show the relevance to the journal. All titles in the references must be in English; if the original language is other than English, this information must be given in the brackets at the end of the reference (see examples below).

All methods used in the research and quoted in the manuscript must be cited. Each method must be cited separately, not several methods under the same reference number. The citation must contain the method number, its title, organization under which it was published, city and country of the organization's headquarters, and year of publication (see examples below).Software name, version, manufacturer, and city and country or the manufacturer can be written in the text, in the brackets next to the software name, or in a reference (see example below).Recommended style for writing references is according to ICMJE. All references need to be cited as in the following examples, and doi numbers must be included in all the references that have assigned a doi number: